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Baxter: Research shows crowdsourced lay fact-checkers match professional fact-checkers
“There was, you know, original research you know, before, before birdwatch even started or community notes even started from external researchers showing that, you know, crowdsource fact checkers can do, you know, lay people can do about as well as Fact checker…”
Baxter: X core ranking algorithm does not demote noted posts
“Although we don't actually use the fact that a post was noted in the core ranking algorithm”
Coleman: Community Notes had a 5-hour median response time during Israel-Hamas outbreak
“In the first few days of the conflict, the median time from a post going live to a note showing up was five hours, which is like crazy fast. Typical fact checking is like two to four. It's really common to see it take two to four days. These notes were showing…”
Baxter: Independent studies show Community Notes change user belief in claims
“Actually, there have been external studies, you know, run by people totally independent of us who have found that if you take a community note or a post with or without a community note, that actually people's agreement with the core claims in the post does ch…”
Coleman: Community Notes generated 30B views across 95k notes in 2024
“And over, ah, let's say the last year, 20, 24, we had something like 95,000 notes that were seen about thirty billion times. That's more than double the prior year. Prior year was something like 37 K notes seen fourteen billion times.”
Coleman: Every post on X is eligible for Community Notes
“So every post is eligible for notes. It's, and that was again, another really important principle. It's like, It, we shouldn't exempt Elon. We shouldn't exempt government figures. We should, like everyone, even advertisers can get notes. So any posts on the pl…”
Coleman: Dorsey mocked Community Notes as a Facebook name while Meta copies it
“Jack has made fun of it, calling it like the ultimate Facebook name or something like that, but the most boring Facebook name, which is funny because they're now, you know, launching community notes.”
Coleman: Authors of unhelpful Community Notes lose their writing privileges
“If you write one that people, you know, people who normally disagree, find not helpful, you actually will ultimately lose your ability to write and have to earn it back.”
Baxter: External studies show Community Notes reduce total reposts by 50% to 60%
“Multiple different external research groups have both found consistently that There's like a 50 or 60% drop in total reposts, which is just nuts after a node is applied.”
Coleman: Community Notes only displays 7% to 11% of proposed notes
“We probably show about eight percent of notes that get proposed. I think that's, it's been between, let's say, seven percent and 10% or 11%, something like that over time.”
Coleman: X allows users to request Community Notes and submit sources
“Recently, for example, we just released an update to what we call the community notes bat signal or the ability to request a community note. So we, anyone on X can say, hey, I think this post needs a community note, and now they can even add a source explainin…”
Baxter: Vitalik Buterin published a blog post verifying Community Notes' algorithm
“Vitalik Peteran had a blog post where he, you know, talks about his explorations, you know, making sure the algorithm really does what it says it does.”
Coleman: Community Notes publishes code updates to GitHub and data daily
“Whenever we update the code, there's, or update the scoring system, there's an update in GitHub when the data is published daily, so you can download it”
Coleman: Community Notes prompted the White House to delete and reissue a tweet
“When we first launched US wide, this was like in two, a note appeared on a white house tweet. And the White House deleted the tweet and reissued an updated statement.”
Coleman: X notifies engaged users when Community Notes appear on posts
“Inevitably there's going to be a time gap between when a post goes live and when people figure out what's going on and when they get the note out there. And so we send those notifications to try to close that gap.”
Coleman: Community Notes has roughly 950,000 global contributors
“There's something like 950,000 contributors around the world. That's, you know, nearing a million people making this happen.”
Coleman: Community Notes published 500 notes in the first three days of Israel-Hamas conflict
“In the first, I think it was like first three days or something of that conflict. We had 500 notes covering all sorts of different you know, like out of context imagery”
Baxter: Running Community Notes locally takes 500GB RAM and roughly one day
“Oh, like, 500 gigs. It'll take like a day if you don't do anything special to speed it up.”
Coleman: Users must earn Community Notes writing privileges by rating
“For a note to be proposed, the person proposing has to have earned the ability to write notes. So there is that, that aspect where you have to, like, earn in to be able to do this. And the way you earn that ability is, is through your ratings by demonstrating …”